Massive List of Antonyms in English - Kerala PSC GK

Antonym is a word with opposite meaning to another word. It's one of the common or frequently asked question in competitive exam's like Kerala PSC, LDC, UPSC, RRB, ISRO etc. Here's a massive list of antonyms in English with alphabetical order.

A

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
absent	present	ancient	modern
abundant	scarce	answer	question
accept	decline, refuse	antonym	synonym
accurate	inaccurate	apart	together
admit	deny	appear	disappear, vanish
advantage	disadvantage	approve	disapprove
against	for	arrive	depart
agree	disagree	artificial	natural
alive	dead	ascend	descend
all	none, nothing	attic	cellar
ally	enemy	attractive	repulsive
always	never	awake	asleep

B

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
backward	forward	bitter	sweet
bad	good	borrow	lend
beautiful	ugly	bottom	top
before	after	boy	girl
begin	end	brave	cowardly
below	above	build	destroy
bent	straight	bold	meek, timid
best	worst	borrow	lend
better	worse, worst	bound	unbound, free
big	little, small	boundless	limited
black	white	bright	dim, dull
blame	praise	brighten	fade
bless	curse	broad	narrow

C

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
calm	windy, troubled	combine	separate
can	windy, troubled	come	go
capable	incapable	comfort	discomfort
captive	free	common	rare
careful	careless	conceal	reveal
cheap	expensive	contract	expand
cheerful	sad, discouraged, dreary	cool	warm
clear	cloudy, opaque	correct	incorrect, wrong
clever	stupid	courage	cowardice
clockwise	counterclockwise	create	destroy
close	far, distant	crooked	straight
closed	ajar, open	cruel	kind
clumsy	graceful	compulsory	voluntary
cold	hot	courteous	discourteous, rude

D

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
dangerous	safe	dim	bright
dark	light	disappear	appear
day	night	discourage	encourage
daytime	Night time	diseased	healthy
dead	alive	down	up
decline	accept, increase	downwards	upwards
decrease	increase	dreary	cheerful
deep	shallow	dry	moist, wet
definite	indefinite	dull	bright, shiny
demand	supply	dusk	dawn
despair	hope

E

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
early	late	enter	exit
east	west	even	odd
easy	hard, difficult	expand	contract
empty	full	export	import
encourage	discourage	exterior	interior
end	begin, start	external	internal

F

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
fade	brighten	fore	aft
fail	succeed	free	bound, captive
false	true	fold	unfold
famous	unknown	forget	remember
far	near	found	lost
fast	slow	fresh	stale
fat	thin	frequent	seldom
feeble	strong, powerful	friend	enemy
few	many	for	against
first	last	fortunate	unfortunate
float	sink	full	empty
foolish	wise

G

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
generous	stingy	go	stop
gentle	rough	good	bad, evil
get	give	grant	refuse
giant	tiny, small, dwarf	great	tiny, small, unimportant
girl	boy	grow	shrink
give	receive, take	guest	host
glad	sad, sorry	guilty	innocent
gloomy	cheerful

H

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
happy	sad	help	hinder
hard	easy	here	there
hard	soft	hero	coward
harmful	harmless	high	low
harsh	mild	hill	valley
hate	love	hinder	help
haves	have-nots	honest	dishonest
healthy	diseased, ill, sick	horizontal	vertical
heaven	hell	hot	cold
heavy	light	humble	proud

I

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
ill	healthy, well	inner	outer
immense	tiny, small	inside	outside
important	trivial	intelligent	stupid, unintelligent
in	out	interesting	boring
include	exclude	interior	exterior
increase	decrease	interesting	dull, uninteresting
inferior	superior	internal	external
inhale	exhale	intentional	accidental

J

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
join	separate	just	unjust
junior	senior	justice	injustice

K

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
knowledge	ignorance	known	unknown

L

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
landlord	tenant	light	dark, heavy
large	small	like	dislike, hate
last	first	likely	unlikely
laugh	cry	limited	boundless
lawful	unlawful, illegal	little	big
lazy	industrious	long	short
leader	follower	loose	tight
left	right	lose	find
lend	borrow	loss	win
lengthen	shorten	loud	quiet
lenient	strict	love	hate
left	right	low	high
less	more	loyal	disloyal

M

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
mad	happy, sane	messy	neat
major	minor	minor	major
many	few	minority	majority
mature	immature	miser	spendthrift
maximum	minimum	misunderstand	understand
melt	freeze	more	less
merry	sad

N

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
nadir	zenith	night	day
narrow	wide	night-time	daytime
near	far, distant	no	yes
neat	messy, untidy	noisy	quiet
never	always	none	some
new	old	north	south

O

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
obedient	disobedient	open	closed, shut
odd	even	opposite	same, similar
offer	refuse	optimist	pessimist
old	young	out	in
old	new	outer	inner
on	off	over	under

P

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
past	present	possible	impossible
patient	impatient	poverty	wealth, riches
peace	war	powerful	weak
permanent	temporary	pretty	ugly
plentiful	scarce	private	public
plural	singular	prudent	imprudent
poetry	prose	pure	impure, contaminated
polite	rude, impolite	push	pull

Q

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
qualified	unqualified	quiet	loud, noisy
question	answer

R

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
raise	lower	rich	poor
rapid	slow	right	left, wrong
rare	common	right-side-up	upside-down
regular	irregular	rough	smooth
real	fake	rude	courteous

S

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
safe	unsafe	sober	drunk
same	opposite	soft	hard
satisfactory	unsatisfactory	some	none
secure	insecure	sorrow	joy
scatter	collect	sour	sweet
separate	join, together	sow	reap
serious	trivial	straight	crooked
second-hand	new	start	finish
shallow	deep	stop	go
shrink	grow	strict	lenient
sick	healthy, ill	strong	weak
simple	complex, hard	success	failure
singular	plural	sunny	cloudy
sink	float	synonym	antonym
slim	fat, thick	sweet	sour
slow	fast

T

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
take	give	tiny	big, huge
tall	short	together	apart
tame	wild	top	bottom
them	us	tough	easy, tender
there	here	transparent	opaque
thick	thin	true	false
tight	loose, slack	truth	flasehood, lie, untruth

U

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
under	over	up	down
unfold	fold	upside-down	right-side-up
unknown	known	upstairs	downstairs
unqualified	qualified	us	them
unsafe	safe	useful	useless

V

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
vacant	occupied	virtue	vice
vanish	appear	visible	invisible
vast	tiny	voluntary	compulsory
victory	defeat

W

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
war	peace	wide	narrow
wax	wane	win	lose
weak	strong	wisdom	folly, stupidity
wet	dry	within	outside
white	black	wrong	right

Y

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
yes	no	young	old
yin	yang

Z

Words	Antonyms	Words	Antonyms
zenith	nadir	zip	unzip